Unit 2 Childhood memories

1. Unit 2 Childhood memories • I. Lead-in • Background information • II. Language Points • Sentence Study • Word Study • III. Guided Writing • IV. Presentation and Exercises

2. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) She is one of the major American poets of the 20th century She lived between 1932 and 1963. She seems to have been depressed and unhappy. Ted and Sylvia Sylvia with her kids Lead-inBackground Information

3. Her works The Bell Jar (1963): her struggle with depression under her pseudonym Victoria Lucas Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (1979, written around 1952): a collection of short stories, essays and extracts from diaries. Superman is an extract from it. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

4. Mecca • A city in Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Islam, where Prophet Muhammad was born. The name "Muhammad" in traditional Islamic calligraphy

5. the Omar Mosque the Belz Great Synagogue (犹太会堂；犹太教堂) the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (圣墓，耶稣之墓） Jerusalem • A holy city for Jews (Judaism), Muslims (Islam) and Christians (Christianity) • The 2000 Statistical Yearbook of Jerusalem lists 1204 synagogues (Jewish house of prayer), 158 churches, and 73 mosques within the city.

6. Salvador Dali Salvador Dali (1904 -1989) • a Spanish surrealist painter known for his strange dream-like paintings (Surrealism 超现实主义) Self Portrait as Mona Lisa, 1954 The Persistence of Memory, 1931

7. In Greek mythology, Icarus was a man who tried to fly using wings held together with wax. When he got too close to the sun, the wax melted, and he fell to the ground and died. Icarus

8. Superman • anewspaperreporter incomics,films,andthe1940radioseries • specialabilitiestoflyandfantasticallystrong • aspecialbluesuitwitharedcape • fightscrime • alwaysturnsupattherightmoment to solve problems

9. Language PointsSentences Study Sentence 1 • ... I can recall the changing colors of those days, clear and definite as a pattern seen through a kaleidoscope. (Para 1) • As a metaphor, kaleidoscope means a view, situation or experience that keeps changing and has many different aspects.

10. Sentence 2 • … a breathless sense of having tumbled like Icarus from the sky and caught myself on the soft bed just in time. What does the writer feel as she comes out of her dream? What happened to Icarus? • She feels she has been falling out of the sky, like Icarus. But, unlike him, she caught herself on the bed to save herself, while Icarus fell and died in the sea.

11. Sentence 3 • The sunset flaunted its pink flag above the airport, and the sound of waves was lost in the perpetual droning of the planes. (Para 2) • The sunset flaunted its pink flag means the pink color of the setting sun was like a flag which the sun was using to try to make everyone notice and admire it. • To drone means to make a continuous low sound. Because Logan is an international airport, the noise of the planes continued all the time. So it was perpetual.

12. Sentence 4 • 4 During recess, David and I came into our own. (Para 6) • To come into one's own means to have the opportunity to show how good or useful someone is. Here the two children are good at imaginative play with Superman games.

13. Sentence 5 • 5 ... the sallow mamma's boy on our block who was left out of the boys' games ... and skin his fat knees. (Para 6) • To skin one's knees means to hurt one's knees by falling on a rough surface in a way that causes some skin to be removed.

14. a) the kaleidoscope of the ages b) a kaleidoscope of colour and pattern c) the kaleidoscope of life d) the kaleidoscope of illusions 时代的万花筒 颜色和图案的千变万化 人生万花筒 瞬息万变的幻觉 Word Study kaleidoscope n.a toy that shows changing patterns As a metaphor, it means a view, situation or experience that keeps changing and has many different aspects. Work in pairs. Translate the following into Chinese.

15. flaunt • n.to deliberately try to make people notice something, e.g. your possessions, beauty, abilities etc, because you want them to admire you • Examples: • —Lawrence didn’t flaunt his wealth – he lived a simple life. • flaunt yourself: • —Models flaunted themselves in tight designer jeans.

16. 有什么能耐施展出来瞧瞧 购买昂贵的服务和商品以炫耀自己的财富。 那位没有教养的妇人当众炫耀她的财富。 If you’ve got it, flaunt it. Buy expensive services and products in order to flaunt your wealth. The ill-bred woman flaunted her riches in public. Work in pairs. Translate the following into Chinese.

17. a type of male bee that does not do any work a continuous low noise an aircraft that does not have a pilot but is controlled from the ground drone v.&n. Drones don’t work. the drone of the aeroplane Bees drone. to make a continuous low sound A drone bomber Work in pairs. Match the sentences/phrases with the meanings.

18. barren or marginal farmland writing of barren insight the barren, inhospitable desert 那片贫瘠的、荒凉的沙漠 缺乏洞察力的作品 荒芜或边远的农田 barren a.without any interesting or positive features, dry and empty Work in pairs. Match the Chinese translation of barren.

19. tag vt. to touch another player in some children’s games n. to fix a small piece of paper or other material to something to give information about it Explain the meaning in the following phrases. Carol tagged Carl in the hide-and-seek. a price tag luggage tag May I have your tag, please?  All her suitcases have been tagged with her name and address.

20. draft vt. (often passive, AmE) to conscribe someone into the army forces 征召（某人）入伍 vt. to write sth such as a legal document, speech, or letter that may have changes made to it before it is finished 起草， 草拟（法律文件、演讲或信件） n.sth such as a plan, letter, or drawing that may have changes made to it before it is finished （计划、信件或绘画等的）草稿, 草案 n.a system in which professional teams in some sports choose players each year from among college students 运动员选拔制（某些职业运动队每年在大学生中选拔新队员)

21. draft • Work in pairs. Translate the following into Chinese. • a draft resolution • NBA draft • To help her father and brother, Mulan was drafted. • That is my first draft of the dissertation. • They are drafting a new constitution for the country. 决议草案 NBA选秀 为帮助父兄，木兰被应征入伍。 那是我学位论文的初稿。 他们正在为国家起草一部新宪法。

22. Work in pairs. Translate the following into Chinese. We marvel at their tremendous achievements. People marvel at the accuracy with which we have been able to diagnose their handwriting. marvel at to find sth surprising and fascinating 我们惊叹他们取得的巨大成就。 人们对我们能准确判断出他的笔迹而赞叹不已。

23. come into one’s own to show how effective and useful one can be to take possession of what is rightfully one's own property • Work in pairs and explain the meaning of the following sentences. • Michael wrote successful novels before, but he really come into his own with the latest one.  • The shop owners at last came into their own. • The scientific study of dreams has not yet come into its own.

24. Guided Writing • When we describe our childhood or other habitual actions, routines and states in the past, we can use the past simple tense. • However, it’s also very common to use would and used to to describe habitual actions and routines in the past. • Remember that we can’t use would to describe a past state. • For completed actions in the past, or to give more information about a habitual action, we use the past simple.

25. Presentation and Exercises Thanks for your listening!